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CONVERTIBLE REGLINING CHAIR.

No. 327,554. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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NUMOB N. HORTON, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CONVERTIBLE RECLINING-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 327,554, dated October6, 1885. Application filed May 9, 1884. Serial No. 130,865. (No model.)

1'0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, NUMON N. HORTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ConvertibleReclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement on that described in my application N0. 124,688, filed March 18, 1884; and it consists in the employment ofcertain additional means whereby the chair described in said applicationmay be converted into a stretcher in addition to the other thingstherein specified.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of thechair converted and locked in position for use as a stretcher. Figs. 11and III are elevations of one of the additional braces and one of theadditional bolts, respectively, employed for locking the chair after ithas been converted into a cot, so as to adapt it for use as a stretcher.

1 1 represent a pair of base-beams, which rest at their rear extremitiesupon the floor, and are supported near their forward extremities by legs2 2, which are hinged thereto and adapted to be folded back wardthereunder, being stayed, when in position for use, by braces 4 4 arethe back beams, which are hinged to the tops of the respectivebase-beams and connected at their upper extremities by a rung, 5, towhich one end of the canvas 6'is secured. The other end of said canvasis secured to a rung, 7, forming the lowerportion of a hinged foot-rest.The rung 7 is placed between the extremities of two short beams, 8 8,which are hinged to the extremities of the base-beams 1 in such a manneras to adapt them to be placed in a horizontal or an inclined position orto be folded up under said base-beams, as occa sion may require. Thisfoot-rest is held in any position in which it may be set by notchedbraces 9 9, which engage over pins projecting from the inner faces ofthe legs 2.

10 10 are braces hinged at their respective ends to the base-beams landback beams, 4 4, said braces being provided for one-half or less oftheir length with any number of joints, 11, which are adapted to befolded backward onto the tops of said base-beams. These braces areprovided with metallic sleeves 12 12, which are adapted to slide thereonand prevent any or all of the joints 11 from folding, according to thedesired altitude of the back. So farI have described nothing that is notfully described in my application above referred to.

13 13 represent bolts or buttons,one of which is pivoted to the back ofeach leg 2, so that they can engage over the tops of the braces 9 9, andthereby prevent them from being raised to free their notches from thepins above referred to.

14 14 are braces, each of which is provided at one end with elongatedslots 15, through which is passed a screw for securing it to the innerside of the base-beam 1, the elongation of said slot allowing a limitedendwise movement to said brace, for the purpose presently to bedescribed. The otherend of each of said braces is provided with akey-hole slot, 16, which is adapted to receive the head of a screw orother suitable projection from theinner side of the back beam, 4, theshank of said screw or projection being received within the re ducedportion of the slot 16. hen it is desired to adapt the chair for use asa stretcher, it is first converted into a cot, thefoot-rest being in itshighest or horizontal position and its back in its lowest position. Thebuttons or bolts 13 are then turned so as to engage over the tops of thebraces 9, thereby adapting said braces to sustain a strain in eitherdirection without becoming freed. The braces 14 are also turned up andthe key-hole slots 16 passed over the heads of the screws on the beams4, the elongated slots 15 at the bottoms of said braces permitting themto fall by their own gravity until the shanks of the screws occupy thereduced portions of said slots 16.

The braces 14 are thereby held automaticallyin position. It will thus beseen that when the braces 9 are locked and the braces 14 in the positionshown in the drawings a weight on the canvas may be lifted by catchinghold of the extremities of the foot-rest and back Without altering therelative positions of the various parts of the chair.

When it is not desired to use the braces 14, they are turned downparallel with the base beams 1, their free ends being supported byscrews projecting from the sides of said beams and occupying thekey-hole slots therein in the manner just described.

Any subject-matter which is shown and de- 5 scribed but not claimed inthis application is claimed in my contemporaneous application, No.124,868, filed March 18, 1884.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and 10 desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. Ina reclining-chair,the eombination,with a frame, 1, and its legs 2,of a hinged foot-rest, 8, notched braces 9, studs projecting from thelegs 2, and buttons or detents 13, pivoted to said legs and engaging thebraces 9, substan- 1'5 tially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. Ina reclining-chair, the combination of a frame, a hinged foot-restbraced and held in position, substantially as described, and a hingedback supported by suitable braces,with 20 a pair of brace-rods, eachhaving an elongated slot at one end and a key-hole slot at the other forengagement with projections from the frame and back of the chair, as setforth.

NUMON N. HORTON.

Witnesses:

OOTAVIUS KNIGHT, HARRY E. KNIGHT.

